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Record W1970502643 · doi:10.1177/1086026603251295

A Comparative Historical Explanation of the Environmental Policies of Two Woodworkers' Unions in Canada

2003· article· en· W1970502643 on OpenAlex

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueOrganization & Environment · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoliticsDemocracyAdversarial systemSociologyLawPublic administrationPolitical science

Abstract

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The Industrial Wood and Allied Workers of Canada (IWA) has cooperated with timber corporations in engaging in an anti-environmentalist campaign in British Columbia. In contrast, the Pulp Paper and Woodworkers of Canada (PPWC) has, on occasion, cooperated with environmental organizations. It is contended here that the IWA's history of purging radicals from its ranks, its longstanding policy of cooperating with management, and its relatively undemocratic political structure are the primary reasons for its anti-environmentalist policies. Conversely, the PPWC has never expelled radicals from leadership positions; it has always maintained an adversarial relationship with management; and its political structure is very democratic. Thus, the specific histories and political structures of the PPWC and the IWA are the primary reasons for their different environmental policies. Therefore, it is argued that there is nothing inherent in woodworkers or woodworkers' unions that would preclude them from cooperating with the environmental movement.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.590
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.009
GPT teacher head0.187
Teacher spread0.179 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it